Icon
An Icon is formed when eleven emblems of a Giant are combined with the "Iconize" command. An Icon can be placed in your home, allowing you to benefit from the Giants more regularly. As with emblems, they cannot be purchased from vendors, donated, or sold at auction.
Giant Love
Sometimes walking past an icon will grant a reward: mood, energy, imagination or favor with that giant. When this happens, a rainbow appears over the glitch, along with the words "Giant Love."
Actions
- Reflect: Dwell a while on the true meaning of the Icon.
- You will receive imagination from this.
- Revere: Let the Icon replenish you while you adore it.
- You will receive Energy from this.
- Ruminate: Soak up the happysauce emanating from the icon.
- You will receive Mood for this.
- Tithe: Insert ... currants to support the Icon.
- Icons require payment before they will allow you to reflect, revere or ruminate.
- Place: Place this Icon on the ground
- Place the icon rather than keeping it in your inventory.
You can only Reflect, Revere, and Ruminate at an Icon once (each) per game day per Giant; if you have Reflected at an Icon of Tii, you will not be able to do so at another Icon until the start of the next day, although you could still Reflect and Ruminate.
If you place the icon in your house or on your Home Street, only you can pick up the icon, but if placed in a public area, it can be picked up by anyone.
Transmissions
These aren't really conversations since the icons don't seem to notice your responses. They seem to be recorded transmissions from previous ages.
Rituals of the Giants
Spriggan
Icon of Spriggan: All rise. ALL RISE, for the daily recitation of the pledge to Spriggan.
You: I'm risen, but...
Icon: We earnest tree-huggers and loyal supplicants to Spriggan pledge allegiance to the All-Powerful Giant of Trees.
You: Look, I'm not sure...
Icon: We swear to pet, not poison, water, not weedkill, and never to go against the grain when we know the grain is good.
You: I'm not really a Spriggot, tbh.
Icon: We will cherish our wood, and love our logs, and never take a hatchet to a dying friend, for every tree is our friend.
You: Oh come ON...
Icon: ...nd above all, deny our loyalty to any giant but Spriggan.
You: I'm sorry, I can't.
Icon: In this, the age of Spriggan.
You: But, but - it's not. When is this from?
Icon: Now and ever more. This is our special pledge. Our lives are made shiny by it. We wooden' lie.
You: That's terrible. This is awful.
Icon: You may now continue your day. Transmission ends.
You: Unbeleafable.
Pot
Icon of Pot: Attention, supplicant. Attention. Attention Supplicant...att...att...bzzzzz...attention loyal supplicant.
You: Attending.
Icon: The following is a ... urrzzzzz ... announcement on behalf of Pot ... click! Cick! ... of Pot.
You: Reception's terrible, dude.
Icon: It has come to the attention of the giants that the stash of ... urzzzz ... hell wine has been ran...rans...ran...
You: Sacked?
Icon: Ransacked. This is not acceptable. Also, Pot wishes the Potulace to know, it shows very little taste in alcohol. It is bad, BAD wine.
You: But...
Icon: And just because the Giants are sleeping, it does not mean they don't know what is going on down here. And if it contin... cont.. cont...
You: *kick*
Icon: ...inues, you will all be eradicated by the rook. You and your sheepies, ducks and sorbetflies.
You: Wait! How old IS this...
Icon: This is the decree of Pot. Message ends. Bzzzz.
You: Hmpf.
Facts about the Giants
Humbaba
Icon of Humbaba: Click... click... transmission begins. Press button to continue.
You: Button?
Icon: ... Fzzzz ... transmission. Giant facts, no. 1623: Humbaba, giant overseer of all that walks or crawls or hops up n the land, is as capable as any giant of walking on two legs. Out of respect for her charges, she walks on four.
You: Oh?
Icon: ... except sometimes when she slithers. Just so nobody feels left out.
You: Right.
Icon: ...And occasionally she hops.
You: Anything el...
Icon: Transmission ends. Click.
You: ...
Icon of Humbaba: Click. Clickclick... Transmission beeeeeeeee...
You: Need a kick?
Icon: ... smission begins. Giant fact no.815: Before the time of the great imagining, Humbaba had dominion over only one animal: the great grey grunting, waddling fartybeast of her home swamp.
You: Hm.
Icon: It is for this reason that, in the time of the great imagining, Humbaba carefully mind-crafted every animal to be special and different and unique. Both the species already hatched, and the species waiting in the future-worlds, waiting to hatch.
You: Huh?
Icon: Transmission...
You: Wait, what?
Icon: ... ends. Click.
You: Gah.